Literary Time Periods

puritanism

personal salvation depended Soley on the grace of God

came to the new world for religious freedom

often viewed as rigid, frugal, but hard working

wrote to glorify God

Establishing a printing press, free public grammar schools, and the first college (Harvard)

Age of Reason

Types of literature were newspapers, speeches, and political pamphlets.

valued reason over faith

time period of unrest leading up to the revolutionary war

John Locke’s philosophies were very important

Wrote to persuade and that writing was often political

Nationalism

Pride in ones country

Romanticism

Nature

Emotion

Supernatural

Individuality

idealism

Imagination

Transcendentalism

belief in oversoul

individualism/ self-reliance

inherent goodness of man

truth through intuition

Spiritual reality is ultimate reality